Download How Old Is Mount Tambora Today Gif. Apart from killing tens of thousands of people and plunging south. The second of these eruptions involved lava flow and lava dome extrusion.
Mount tambora is 5000 years old and when it erupted on it killed 50,000 victims and the date that it erupted in 1819.
Its 1815 explosion was possibly the most destructive ever recorded. Besides the seismologists and vulcanologists who monitor the mountain's activity, mount tambora is an area of interest to archaeologists and biologists. Mount tambora, or tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in the northern part of sumbawa, one of the lesser sunda islands of indonesia. The bright sun was extinguish'd. and so it was, by the incredible eruption of mount tambora on the indonesian island sumbawa in april of 1865.